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The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The 'Ordos Bronzes,' Peter the Great's Treasure, and their Kin
by John Boardman
This is a study of the relief plaques of the 'Ordos bronzes' and their kin in north China and Central Asia, including Peter the Great's Treasure in the State Hermitage, St Petersburg. It attempts to classify them by shape, style and iconography, and to trace their origins, listing and illustrating as many specimens as seemed necessary to convey to the reader the unity of individual series as well as their variety. One class is distinguised as ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00
Die Felsbildstation Thalpan IV: Katalog Thalpan (Steine 451-811)
by Ditte Bandini-König, edited by Hauptmann Harald
xi, 311p (Philipp von Zabern 2009)
Hardback. Price US$139.00
Excavation of Khok Phanom Di, Vol 3: The Material Culture (part 1)
edited by C. F. W. Higham & R. Thosarat.
283p, 107 figs (Soc Antiquaries London 1993)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$75.00, Our Price US$34.98
The Religions of the Hindukush 1
Jettmar, K.
The Religions of the Hindukush
Paperback. Price US$56.00
Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millenium: Theology of Minjung in Fourth-Eye Formation
edited by Paul S. Chung, Veli Matti Karkkainen and Kim Kyoung-Jae
In this volume, an attempt is undertaken to highlight the genesis, progress, and transformation of the Asian contextual theology of minjung, introducing its historical point of departure, its development, and its transformation in light of younger Korean and Korean American scholars' endeavors. In this regard, the new Asian contextual theology, which is emerging, strives to integrate both minjung and the wisdom of World Religions into its own ...
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Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands
edited by Michael Alram, Deborah E Klimburg-Salter, Minoru Inaba and Matthias Pfisterer
The pre-Islamic history of southern Central Asia-modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and the surrounding areas-continues to pose challenging problems that can be solved only through interdisciplinary efforts. In the tradition of "Coins, Art and Chronology" (1999), this volume comprises 24 articles by leading experts in the fields of history, art history, numismatics, archaeology and linguistics in order to document the current state of ...
Paperback. Price US$147.00
Nomadische Lebenswelten und zarische Politik: Der Aufstand in Zentralasien 1916
by Jörn Happel
English summary: In the summer of 1916, Russian colonial rule failed in Central Asia. In particular, the nomads defended themselves through an uprising and revolted against the rule of the Tsar. They fought against their conscription, against their loss of rights and against the seizure of their land by Russian colonists families. It is likely that up to 200,000 Central Asians and about 10,000 Russians and Ukrainians were killed in those ...
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The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1: The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia
by Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, and Pavel Avetisyan, with contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc
Until recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual terra incognita on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places-of site names, toponyms, and topography-gave the impression of a region distant, unknown, and vacant. The Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) was founded in 1998 to explore this terrain. Our ...
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Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur. Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture
edited by Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak, and Angela Schottenhammer
Horses, horse-breeding and horse-keeping, as well as the trade in these animals, played an important role in the history of Asia's pre- and early modern civilisations. However, horses were unequally distributed over the Asian continent and their acquisition was usually associated with different expectations. When the knowledge spread that horses could be profitably used in warfare as well as for overland transportation and for agriculture, this ...
Paperback. Price US$87.00
Bactrian Documents, Part 2
by Nicholas Sims-Williams
The second volume of Bactrian documets from Afghanistan of the 2nd to 9th cents AD.Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, which was used for administrative purposes by a succession of dynasties from the 2nd to the 9th century CE, was virtually unknown until the discovery during the 1990s of more than 150 documents written on leather, wood and cloth. In these two volumes, Nicholas Sims-Williams has for the first time deciphered and ...
Hardback. Price US$46.00
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